Everybody should just relax and take it easy.

Unsubstantiated rumors that Vice President Joe Biden had suddenly gone
a little loopy and ordered some of his official meetings opened to at
least cursory public or media attention were just that --
unsubstantiated rumors.

After a recent public sighting, fears had mounted that the one-time,
long-term senator might rebel against traditional White House
strictures and start acting on all the administration's oft-promised
promises of government transparency and official openness running back
into 2008.

But the VP's public schedule today puts all those fears to rest.

In fact, loyal Ticket readers will recall that one day last summer
with no advance warning whatsoever Biden's official White House
schedule changed from listing frequent "private meetings" to listing
frequent meetings that are "closed press." Was this dramatic and....


....little-noticed vocabulary change a sign of internal administration
turmoil? What did it really mean?

No, of course not. And, nothing.